LAUREN SCHAFFER

lauren@laurendschaffer.com
www.laurendschaffer.com
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(416) 220-5403

Education
M.F.A. 1995 Dept. of Sculpture, Ceramics & Fibers, Concordia University (Montreal)
B.F.A. 1990 Studio/Minor in Art History, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax)
1989 Exchange Program, Cooper Union (New York City)

A w ards
2018 Grow Op Seed Development Award (for Studio Series)
Canada Council Explore and Create Grant
2015 TUFF 2015 Best Experimental Film (for a blind)
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
2011 Ontario Arts Council Visual Artist Mid-Career Grant
2009 Canada Council Production Grant
1999 Canada Council Travel Grant
1998 Conseil des Arts et des Lettres Artistic Research & Practice Grant (Type B)
1997 Canada Council C Grant
1995 Galerie Articule Special Projects Assistance, Montreal
1991 Canada Council Project Grant

S electe d S o lo E xhi b it io ns
2019 Bridge over Keating Channel at Cherry Beach Narrowsburg Union, Narrowsburg, NY
Dirty Sweep Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax
2013 Translating the world for Isabella / Shohola Nights (with Nicholas Hooper) Zsa Zsa West, Winnipeg
2010 she can swing an elbow Port Loggia Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax
2009 Translating the world for Isabella Station Gallery, Whitby, ON
2002 Electric Sunset St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax.
1999 Diamond as Big as The Ritz (with Lise Beaudry) A Space, Toronto
1998 Casing Series, Part 1 Rogue Gallery, Victoria
1996 Diamonds go East Khyber Art Center, Halifax
What happened to the L in L’Amour Galerie Glace, Montreal
1995 Diamond as Big as the Ritz Cathcart Building / Articule, Montreal
Work Song Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax

S electe d Gro up E xhi b it io ns

2018 Grow Op 2018 (curated by Alan Webb & Christine Leu) Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
2017 Desire Lines (curated by Layne Hinton & Rui Pimenta), 291 Lakeshore Blvd. East, Toronto
2016 in/future (curated by Layne Hinton & Rui Pimenta), Ontario Place, Toronto
2015 Shohola Nights & Mortimer Dreams, Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre, Oakville, ON
A Blind (awarded Best Experimental Film) Toronto Urban Film Festival 2015, Toronto, ON
2014 Under New Management: Video Store (curated by Suzanne Carte & Su-Ying Lee)
Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON
2012 Material World (curated by David Diviney) Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
2008 Field work (site project with Caroline Chan, Shelley Dougherty, Nick Hooper & Simone Jones), Bonnie River, NB
2001 Celebrating the Faculty of Fine Arts: 25 Artists, 25 years Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal
2000 Desire (curated by Raymond Cronin) Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown & St. Mary's
University Gallery, Halifax
1999 Calgary Sculpture Project (curated by Gregory Elgstrand) Truck, Calgary
1997 Artropolis Browser ’97 (curated by Kitty Scott & Andrew Renton), Vancouver
Hybrid Cultures: works from Mexico City & Montreal (curated by Valerie de la Montagne) Oboro
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1997 Man Size (curated by Kenneth Hayes) 469 King St. W., Toronto
1996 London Life:Young Contemporaries Museum London, London (1996)
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (1997), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1997)
Artifice '96 (curated by David Liss) Galerie du Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal
Afterimages (curated by Gil McElroy) New Exhibition Room, T.U.N.S., Halifax
1995 Galerie Nomad (curated by David Liss) Montreal
1994 Sculpture Expo ‘94: The Mall Show St. Mary’s University Gallery, Halifax
1993 The Shed Show (co-organizer and artist) Pier 21, Halifax
1990 Sculpture Garden T.U.N.S., Halifax

On- li ne P roj ect s

2010 The Beautiful W ork of Lauren Schaffer curated by Jennifer McMackon
simpleposie (http://jennifermcmackon.tripod.com/simpleposie/ ), November 3, 2010
2004 Electric Sunset curated by Caroline Chan (with essay)
Samplesize.ca, Curatorial Program (a website of Kelly Mark’s featuring Canadian contemporary art)

B ib l iogr ap hy
2019 J e nnif er McM acko n, D i r ty S we ep: The R estl ess W ork of Lau ren S chaf fer
A nna Leo now e n s G a ll er y/N S C A D U ni ve r sit y / https://jennifermcmackon.org/news.html
2012 D avid D i vi ne y, Material World Halifax: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
2009 Gil McElroy, Lauren Schaffer at Station Gallery, Akimblog, akimbo.ca, October 21
2007 Poesis: A Journal of the Arts and Communication, Volume 9, European Graduate School: EGS Press
Gil McElroy, article for 20th Year Anniversary, Espace Sculpture #81 (Fall)
2001 Gil McElroy, Gravity and Grace: Selected Writing on Contemporary Canadian Art, Gaspereau Press
Ray Cronin, Spotlight "Material Girl", Canadian Art (Winter)
2000 Ray Cronin, Desire: Greg Forrest, Lauren Schaffer & Colleen Wolstenholme
Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum
Pan Wendt, review of Desire, Arts Atlantic #67 (Summer-Fall)
1999 Rochelle Holt, Lauren Schaffer: Diamond as…) Toronto: A Space
1997 Kenneth Hayes, Man Size / Headquarters Toronto
James Patten, Young Contemporaries '96 London: Museum London
Robin Metcalfe, "London Life Young Contemporaries '96", Canadian Art (Spring)
1996 Raymond Cronin, Sculpture Expo '94 Halifax: St. Mary's University Art Gallery
Gil McElroy, Afterimages: Representing the Absent Body Halifax: T.U.N.S. Press
Jennifer Couelle, ”Par douzaines, les diamants!”, Le Devoir (Montreal), December 21
Robin Metcalfe, "Sculpture Expo ‘94", Canadian Art (Winter)
1994 Robin Peck, “Ghosts: Sculpture Photographed at Pier 21" (cover art) C Magazine (Spring)

P ub l icat io ns
2008-13 Art Curator for Poiesis: a journal of the arts & communication
EGS Press, E.G.S., Switzerland /Toronto
1998 Lauren Schaffer / Robert Hullot Kentor
Choreography of the Ordinary: Recent Work, 1990-Present (Mowry Baden exhibition catalogue)
Open Space/ University of Victoria

A rti st - i n-R e side nce

2019, 2010 Artist-in-Residence, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1995 Artist-in-Residence, Crane Canada
1992 Artist-in-Residence for a Serigraphy Edition, Atelier Graff, Montreal

Collections Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Crane Canada Ltd., Galerie Graff, private collections